It was bound to happen. Fringe ideas are combining thanks to America Unearthed. Officials at the History family of networks might think their programs are just entertainment, but people take them seriously. You’ll recall that in episode S01E04 of America Unearthed Scott Wolter went in search of the skeletons of “giants” in Minnesota. Although Wolter found no giants—the skeleton he investigated was 5’3”—that isn’t the impression viewers got after an hour of speculation about how and why super-tall skeletons have been dug up across America. So it was only a matter of time before fans of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot came across the “giants” episode of America Unearthed and began to ask the only logical question: “Could these giant bones actually be Bigfoot bones?”

Bigfoot Research News speculated last week that the “giants” Wolter sought in Minnesota were the bones of Sasquatch and that America Unearthed had therefore overcome one of the greatest objections to the reality of Bigfoot: that no skeletons had ever been found. I will remind you again that Wolter found no giant skeletons, and the Victorian-era “giant” skeletons he referenced in the episode were hoaxes. Earlier “giant” skeletons found in the eighteenth century, such as the famous bones seen by Cotton Mather, were later determined to be wooly mammoth bones. While America Unearthed is unintentionally giving succor to Bigfoot believers, this is hardly the first time nineteenth century accounts of giants have been turned into evidence for Bigfoot. Here’s one claim from 2004, used as an example of a conspiracy theory in the book Cryptozoology: Science and Speculation: “We don’t have any Bigfoot skeletons today because giant skeletons found in America’s past were all carted off to museums and stashed away so that prevailing theories wouldn’t be upset.” And again in 2011’s Eerie Tales: “Some claim that the giant skeletons found in old Indian burial mounds in the nineteenth century were actually Bigfoot remains.” Here again, though, the claim is raised to swat it down since the alleged giant skeletons had human rather than ape skulls. More seriously, the Unexplained Phenomenon Rough Guide Special claimed “In North America, Bigfoot has numerous ancient prototypes in the giants which have been excavated from ancient Indian mounds. (The records of these giants have been thoroughly suppressed by the archeologists…).” This practically demands that we ask how Unexplained Phenomenon found out about them... In a similar vein, Jay Rath, in The I-Files, asked whether the Windigo legend was a Native American “memory” of the Neanderthals—from prehistoric Europe—before claiming that archaeologists were suppressing the discovery of giant skeletons in Native mounds and that these skeletons could be those of Bigfoot, etc. These claims seem to descend from an earlier layer of myth in which the Bigfoot was merely associated with Native American burial mounds as places of mystery and magic. In Wisconsin, in 1936, Mark Shackleman met a hairy creature that has been variously described as a Bigfoot, Windigo, or werewolf digging in a Native burial mound off Highway 18. Today it is used as early evidence for the 1980s-era Beast of Bray Road. In 1979, A. J. Moore claimed to have found a Bigfoot skeleton laid out ritually on shells either on or beside a Native American burial mound in Florida; of course no trace of this alleged find ever turned up. Various other semi-legendary stories of hairy beasts and burial mounds exist. In turn, these are physical interpretations of earlier colonial and Victorian tales of how burial mounds were associated with ghosts, phantoms, and other strange phenomena. This, in turn, derived from the mistaken belief that the Native mounds contained buried treasure (an idea as old as De Soto’s expedition) and the folkloric belief that buried treasure had ghostly guardians. I’m sure I’ve told the story before of how in the 1700s in rural Virginia (now West Virginia) a legend arose that if a person plunged a stick into a particular Upshur County burial mound, a ghostly scream would emanate from the mound from sunset to sunrise each night until the stick was removed. Such stories were widespread, and in time the ghosts gave way to Bigfoot, but without an appreciable change in the aura of the supernatural hanging over the mounds. This same whiff of the sacred or supernatural also led the Mormons to envision the mounds as the burial place of the lost race of Jews they believed had been slaughtered by Native Americans, as well as the place where the Book of Mormon had been buried on golden tablets. (Joseph Smith believed Hill Cumorah to be a mound, but it was actually a natural hill.)

No, no, no! The hooked X obviously symbolizes two triangular mermaid/merman fins meeting in the middle. The hook symbolizes a smaller mermaid offspring from the mermaid/merman union. If we take this complex symbol to its logical conclusion then we have to assume Jesus was a fishman, he was married and had offspring, the Templars (knowing this secret the whole time) started the Long John Silver's and Red Lobster franchises as secret churches, and that Scott Wolter is suppressing the truth about the true nature of the holy bloodline with his bogus Sinclair story.

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Exxon Mobil

5/29/2013 02:43:18 pm

...yeah...dissect their logos instead...

Thane

5/30/2013 01:29:12 pm

I thought the hook on the hooked X represented the Fisherman's hook that hooked all the Mer-peoples. The fisherman is St. Paul. Jesus told him he would be a fisher of men and we all know he meant fisher of MER-men.

The Knights Temple obviously found St. Paul's old fishing pole and tact and the head, Baphomet, is obviously St. Paul's head. In their secret rituals St. Paul taught the Knights how to fish to rid the world on the alien crossbreed humans (aka the mer-men.)

Wow. So loony ideas are combining into one huge Frankenstein's monster loony idea. Or maybe a really disturbing GoBot.

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Robin Swope

5/29/2013 12:25:05 pm

Some of the giant skeleton finds in the 1800s (some not connected with mounds) have historical documentation. However the skeletons were only those of Native Americans who were between 6-7ft tall. They were normal human skeletons (besides being slightly slightly larger) and were buried with the rest of the populace in the same style. No Sasquatch.

Miskatonic University in Arkham Mass has a huge collection of big foot and other giant skeletons as well as the premier occult book collection in the United States, including one of the very few genuine copies of Abdul Alhazred's the Necronomicon (believed to be bound in human skin), the Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt and the fragmentary Book of Eibon.

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Gunn

5/31/2013 08:03:18 pm

Who cares, Dave? Since you are purposely rude on this blog, really, who cares about your input at all? Nice one day, rude the next. Explain yourself, please. Are you an over-inflated person at times, prone to rudeness? What pressure are you and why? Examine yourself, please, and give us a report. What makes you tick, and why do you feel a need to be rude at someone else's expense? Just having fun?

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Dave Lewis

6/1/2013 07:40:27 pm

Sounds like you are having a bad day. I hope thing!s get better for you

Joe

5/30/2013 04:31:54 pm

But I love that one Bigfoot show solely because the guy pronounces Sasquatch as "sqwauch." It's like ghost hunters, only less happens. Always listening to some sound way in the distance.

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Ginger Wentworth

6/3/2013 06:53:45 am

When will a theory emerge that involves the people on the Hoarders shows?

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Philip Edwards

7/23/2013 05:44:01 am

I am fascinated by Sasquatch stories and have personally investigated several. One case, lead me to a remote location in the BC interior where I was presented with a tibia, missing the joins, about 14 - 16 inches long. The bones terminated at the epiphyseal plates. Based on the length and girth I estimated that these did not come from a human. I estimated the height of the living specimen to be between 4 and 4.5 feet weighing probably 300 lbs or more. My conclusion: cow or horse. Why couldn't it have been a Sasquatch juvenile?

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J.A. Dickey

12/9/2013 12:39:26 pm

Dare i to think of the idea of a being not unlike a long extinct Gigantopithecus being found inside a New World Viking grave?

You my friend have no idea what you are talking about with the morman
church. I got a good laugh at it though. That was a fine example of rumor being taken as truth without even thinking about investigating before spreading the rumors further. Don't tell me you looked into it. You are just an idiot.

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Paul Letteri

1/14/2015 06:45:07 am

There is undisputed able proof that Bigfoot exists they have hair samples to no known species in Canada,as well as pacific Noryh west,
Also Audio ,even in Russia ,they are positive ,Ape,or otherwise.
Just as other Animals such as thought extinct,fish,or even certain Apes were discovered in dense jungle ,thought to be myth. There are Millions of miles of woods ,even planes lost in the north west 60 years ago never found.the intelligent animals are nocturnal,and avoid contact.there are also footprints that have dermal ridges as in finder prints and i prints so deep in soil you woul have to exceed over 600 pounds with strides up hill Imposdible gor any man to match.
Look out at the stars ,are you that nieve to think that of the Billions of
Planets out there we are the only ones in this Vast universe ?
Just as in God you have never seen him but he does exists.
Have faith or not it is your choice !!

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